Decent rainfall totals came to the KVOE listening area Wednesday:
*KVOE studios: 0.90 inches
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.59 inches
*Ninth and Lawrence: 0.80 inches
*10th and Weaver: 0.90 inches
*1100 block Constitution: 1.05 inches
*Deerbrook Addition: 0.90 inches
*South and Sylvan: 0.95 inches
*1 mile southwest of Emporia: 1 inch
*3 miles west of Emporia Golf Course: 1 inch
*3 miles east of Emporia Municipal Airport: 1.09 inches
*Allen: 0.90 inches
*Council Grove: 1 inch
*Eureka Milliken Airport: 0.45 inches
*Gridley: 1 inch
*6 miles north of Gridley: 0.70 inches
*Between Hartford and Olpe: 0.80 inches
*Kansas Highway 99 at Lyon-Greenwood county line: 1.10 inches
*Lamont: 1 inch
*3 miles east-southeast of LeRoy: 1.03 inches
*Neosho Rapids: 0.85 inches
*Olpe: 0.60 inches
*8 miles southeast of Olpe: 1.11 inches
*5 miles southwest of Olpe: 0.95 inches
*Reading: 0.80 inches
*Roads 170 and T-5: 0.95 inches
*Thorndale: 0.70 inches
Rain may redevelop late Thursday afternoon and continue through mid-evening. Totals are expected to be under a quarter-inch.
Last week, the US Drought Monitor had some improvement as a moderate drought area went to abnormally dry for far northwest Lyon County and most of southern and central Morris County. Unfortunately, this week’s update now adds a deepening of drought to severe levels for far west Lyon County and the northern four-fifths of Chase County. Most of the KVOE listening area is under moderate drought, with surrounding portions of Coffey, Greenwood, Osage and Wabaunsee counties still listed as abnormally dry.
If you have rain totals from Wednesday, message the KVOE Bluestem Farm and Ranch text line at 620-342-5863.
